Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Howell

Just installed 4.02 and i'm now getting the following at the top of my showthread.php pages???

Warning: mt_rand() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /includes/vb_ad_management/functions_vb_ad_management.php on line 139

I have disabled the postbit adverts for the time being.

Originally Posted by redlabour

BUG:

Installed 4.0.2 and now are no Postbit Ads are shown anymore.

The Bug in Postbit where the Ads are only displayed on the first Page of a Thread is not fixed - now it does not work anymore.

I cannot reproduce either of these bugs on my test forum, it seems to be working fine. Could you try reuploading ALL the files in the changed package instead of just the changed ones.

Originally Posted by grahamsmythe

I'm sure there's an incredibly simple fix for this, as I've been using vB Ad Management 4 for a while now without any problems.

We downloaded a new Christmas style, so we could appear festive and give our forum a new look for a couple of weeks.

The problem is, the ads that appeared on our old style no longer appear on our new style! It's almost as if the new style hasn't been told about vB Ad Management 4.

We then downloaded and installed the latest version of vB Ad Management 4, which still works fine in our old style, but we just can't seem to get it working with the new Christmas style.

I'm sure there's something we've forgotten to do when we installed the new style, but can't work out what it is.

Can anyone help???

If you're using manual template edits and the Xmas style is not set to inherit changes from parent styles then you will need to make the template edits in that style as well.

Originally Posted by netcommander

Hello
I've see one problem and I've add images link pls help
how can I fix this problem.

Unfortunately I can only understand English. I'm not sure a translation would be enough, but if anyone gets it in English I'll deal with it.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

I cannot reproduce either of these bugs on my test forum, it seems to be working fine. Could you try reuploading ALL the files in the changed package instead of just the changed ones.

Thats what i did.

See here (Settings are after every 4 Post - before Update it only shows them on the frist Page - now not on any Page) :

http://www.politikstube.de/forum/fun...t_haetten.html

[mpoorrajab]

i haved update it ...

i have a problem ...

why this word " Remove advertisements " had link to registration page and dont remove add column ?

[bezibaerchen]

Installed it, but got two ads on the footer. Don't want the last one. Any hints?

Exampe: http://www.mobil-talk.de

[maroceve]

Redtyger, Is there a way to CAP the PAGE AD to 1 per Session/ Per day .. ?

15 Minutes is too agressiv ...and some of my announcers only order 1 Banner per USer PEr day.

Thanks in advance.

Great hack ..REally

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by mpoorrajab

why this word " Remove advertisements " had link to registration page and dont remove add column ?

Nobody knows - RedTyger thinks it makes sense. Read some pages before - there is no way to Discuss this with him to make it more comfortable and useful.

Originally Posted by bezibaerchen

Installed it, but got two ads on the footer. Don't want the last one. Any hints?

Delete your old Template-Edits from 3.x Version.

[tekguru]

Cheers that has sorted it!

[The Librarian]

Just got a look at this installed and it looks great! You've made vast improvements. I really appreciate it - particularly my beloved navbar placement addition.

Thanks for all your hard work RedTyger!

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Nobody knows - RedTyger thinks it makes sense. Read some pages before - there is no way to Discuss this with him to make it more comfortable and useful.

I do think that. There's a few reasons why I made the change.

1) It is more flexible this way. Before it was a case of "Remove advertisements" link on or off. Now it can be customised to suit any member of the forum on any page, in any ad location, with any text and any link location.

2) It is more efficient this way. Before, there were two options: Link and link text. When displaying this, the code checked both options on every page load to see what to do. Now it checks nothing at all, because it's a phrase. It's not much of course, but it all helps.

3) It points to register.php on the basis that a) It's a page that I know every forum will have, so I can be sure it will go somewhere and b) by far the most common use of advertisements is to display them to guests, encouraging them to register so they won't see advertisements and can join in with the forum.

4) There is almost no difference other than the text and link must be changed with the phrase manager instead of the global settings. Deleting it from all the templates entirely can also be done all at once using the template search and replace feature.

Hope that explains why I decided to make the change. I put a lot of thought into how the product is made, believe it or not.

Originally Posted by The Librarian

Just got a look at this installed and it looks great! You've made vast improvements. I really appreciate it - particularly my beloved navbar placement addition.

Thanks for all your hard work RedTyger!

Glad it helps you out.

[tekguru]

One problem I'm seeing with 4.02 is that the right hand column used to sit below the header advert, now it sits to the right of it.

Any ideas on how to fix?

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